Importance of Music in Everyday Life

I found a great article at Preacher Mikes Blog , it’s a welcoming address by Karl Paulnack for freshman at the Boston Conservatory. He writes;

The first people to understand how music really works were the ancient Greeks. And this is going to fascinate you; the Greeks said that music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. Astronomy was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, hidden objects. Music has a way of finding the big, invisible moving pieces inside our hearts and souls and helping us figure out the position of things inside us. Let me give you some examples of how this works. One of the most profound musical compositions of all time is the Quartet for the End of Time written by French composer Olivier Messiaen in 1940.

He also notes that, Musicians are more likely to save the planet than Politicians, Generals or Engineers.  Reminds me of the old joke “I told my parents I wanted to be a Musician when I grew up”. They said “I had to do one or the other”

Here’s a link to the whole article

Here’s another bad joke; a Doctor arrives at the pearly gates and St. Peter asks him who he is, replies “I’m a surgeon, I helped the crippled to walk and the blind to see” Come on in St Peter says. Next person shows up, Peter asks who he is, “I’m a Teacher, I help educate the ignorant and prepared them for successful careers”. Come on in. The next guy comes along and says “I was a Musician, I made depressed people happy and I gave lonely people a reason to go out and celebrate life”. St Peter says  ” That’s great, you can load your gear in through the kitchen”